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Founded by H.L. Mencken in 1924Sun, 17 Sep 2017 15:31:04 +0000hourly1Comment on Who Really Solved the Mary Phagan Murder Case? by Damian Andrewshttps://theamericanmercury.org/2012/10/who-really-solved-the-mary-phagan-murder-case/comment-page-1/#comment-2406
Sun, 17 Sep 2017 15:31:04 +0000https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=1417#comment-2406Why did Jim Conley defecated in the basement of the elevator shaft when there was a toilet for him(negro segregated toilet of that time) in the basement????!!
Anybody want to have a crack at answering that???!!!
Considering the evidence I’ve gathered from what’s available on the internet can only lead to a conclusion of Jim Conley being mentally unstable.
Anybody want to shed a better light on that than that?
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Sun, 17 Sep 2017 12:49:05 +0000https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=1417#comment-2404Another thing I should mention about regarding the resentment or hatred toward Leo Frank is that there are clear records about his behaviour that might have fuelled the ‘natural’ hatred or northerners and Jews at that time of the southern history. Leo Frank fired his bookkeeper for a one dollar discrepancy in the books. This would indicate some deviousness in Leo Frank’s part when it came to financial matters. There is abundance of information to support Leo Frank was generally resented by everybody for what he represented and perhaps his personality and demeanour did not help, as in the above case of firing somebody for a measly amount of money discrepancy. There is no doubt his lynching was a horrible crime by the typical criminal and hateful behaviour of a good portion of white southerners of that time, but is not unlikely Leo Frank himself helped fuelling their hatred of him and his kind. In other words, Leo Frank should’ve had known what he got himself into when getting into the business of exploiting the cheap labor of poor southerners, including child labor. To a certain degree, he contributed toward his demise, consciously or unconsciously.
All the rest needed was being at the wrong place and the wrong time, which he ‘succeeded’ when he got into the business of working at that factory.
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Sun, 17 Sep 2017 12:29:13 +0000https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=1417#comment-2403Also, lets not forget that the only reason this case has received the status of “murder trial of the millennium” is because Leo Frank was a man of status among his native Jewish community. If he was a poor Jew, Negro or anything else, he wouldn’t have had any chance of the support he had received. There were thousand and thousands of negros were slaughtered in American south before that which nobody cares about. It is always tragedy when a single person suffers a horrific death, whether it’s Leo Frank or Mary Phagan, but it’s a statistic when it comes to all the lynchings and slaughter of the slave negros.
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Sun, 17 Sep 2017 11:39:36 +0000https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=1417#comment-2402I have studied this case extensively and watched all the documentaries and the TV movie made about it. I have never seen a case that two opposing groups have been competing with each other to include scenarios that weren’t consistent with the historical records. There is much more to this story than what the investigations have uncovered during the time of this murder & a century after the incident. Not even once I’ve read from anybody from anywhere or in any records about the bizarreness of Jim Conley defecating in the elevator shaft and the reasons behind it. I have no doubts Jim Conley is a strange character comparing to typical struggling negros of the south of that time.
On the other hand, it is an outright false to suggest anti-Semitism and the strong dislike of Yankees at that time had not played a part in this saga. It is not clear whether Leo Frank was guilty of the crime or whether he played a part in that crime, or whether both Jim Conley & Leo Frank was involved in the crime. What was clear is that Leo Frank was guilty of something. He was a Jewish industrialist that was exploiting poor struggling children of that time in South. The wages those girls were getting were not too far from slave labor. There is no doubt the people resented that at the time. There is no question Leo Frank and “his kind”(Jewish & Yankee) were hated during that time.
How much of that hatred played a part in the trial was debatable, but what can’t be debated is that it did play a part.
Jim Conley defecated in the elevator shaft for a reason. He lied over and over for a reason.
Leo Frank incriminating himself by making confessions about his whereabouts to be consistent with the prosecution’s evidence also makes no sense. There is no doubt Leo Frank was not a typical Jew or a typical man of his level of status. He was a nervous person according to records about him.
This whole case stinks inside out. People are heavily divided about this case, even where it happened back then as well as now. The departing governor who commuted Leo Frank’s sentence to a life in prison also went out of his way, indicating there were grounds to do that. Him having stakes at the law firm that defended Leo Frank was a conflict of interest from today’s standards, but it is unclear how conflicting it was back then. The prosecutor himself was politically ambitious and desperate to win a case(particularly against a Yankee Jew) where he would’ve elevated into a local hero status, and which it did, as it super boosted his political career.
Again, the whole case stinks as both sides are fabricating stories that aren’t consistent with historical records about the case.
Leo Frank’s sentence commutation was the right thing from what I can gather as it would allow the case to be reinvestigated through the legal system and find out exactly what happened to Mary Phagen. She was bashed and strangled, yet there was no conclusive evidence she was raped. The truth behind the poor girl’s murder appeared to have gotten buried behind the circus of politics and social circumstances of the American South at that time.
There is much more to Leo Frank & Jim Conley than the records have shown us. It doesn’t look like Mary Phagen received any justice for the brutal and untimely taking of her life.
If Leo Frank actually committed the crime and he was a lowlife pedophile as some people tend to believe, then he must go into the history books as a dumbest educated pedophile murderer in the annals of mankind because of the way he “gave up” himself during the trial. Otherwise we have to conclude Leo Frank as a severely mentally unstable and nervous person, regardless of whether he was the actual murderer or not.

Either way, I seriously doubt Mary Phegan received any justice.

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Thu, 24 Aug 2017 19:26:10 +0000https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=2333#comment-2388WHY THE HELL are you running a series on a literal NAZI? You must have lost your mind. We will see too it that your site goes down and never comes back up
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Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:10:41 +0000https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=2223#comment-2367I appreciate these articles from the old print Mercury. They contain some of the best writing I’ve seen, and it’s really hard to find. Keep up the good work!
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Thu, 17 Aug 2017 23:04:24 +0000https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=2324#comment-2366Leonard Dinnerstein’s and Abraham Foxman’s ADL “anti-Semitism” allegation against the judge and jury in this case, and against the people of the South, is the biggest deception of the 20th century.

It is shocking that these Civil Right Activists — who are credentialed and so prominent — discredit and disgrace themselves by openly manufacturing an easily disproven hate crime hoax.

Dinnerstein and the ADL stand to ruin their good names by engaging in academic dishonesty, and falsifying history.

It’s a racist and disingenuous charge against the American people of the South, and the US legal system, to say that anti-Semitism was behind Leo Frank’s conviction. It’s a disgusting and vicious lie of the very worst type. It seems unconscionable that Jewish groups, like the ADL, SPLC and other Jewish activist groups who claim to be fighting for civil rights, would so brazenly falsify history — when this claim does not stand up to even the most minimal academic inquiry and scholarly scrutiny.

In the thousands of pages of Leo Frank’s State and Federal appeals records there is not even a single hint that mobs of people were screaming anti-Semitic death threats at the judge and jury through the open windows at the trial.

Here’s the truth: The South was the exact opposite of anti-Semitic; they were actually philo-semitic. The United States Census for all the decades prior to 1940 have been made public domain, and they indicate there was a great degree of marriages between Jews and Gentiles in the South, more than in any other part of the country.

The claim by some politically-motivated writers that half of Georgia’s 3,000 Jewish families left the state in response to the Leo Frank case is categorically false — in fact the exact opposite happened. The population of Jews grew in the South; it did not decline.

Today the Jewish population in Georgia is higher than it has ever been, by leaps and bounds!

Why are men and women of sterling credentials so eager and willing to invert the reality of this case, and besmirch their reputations for honesty and integrity, by making up falsehoods about the Leo Frank trial that can be so easily disproven? Why?

Thanks SO MUCH to the American Mercury for bringing us the facts in detail.

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Tue, 11 Jul 2017 04:31:45 +0000https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=1492#comment-2365They knew if they didn’t execute him, his tribe would find a way to exonerate him to removal the scandal. They had no other choice
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Tue, 23 May 2017 23:41:17 +0000https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=1492#comment-2364The letter was likely a forgery, and, whatever it was, do you really think it should be included in a list of reasons Frank is guilty? Perhaps it should, since it shows yet another deception on the part of Frank’s team. Roan was dying in an institution, and a deputation of Frank’s men — who came to cajole the judge into writing it — literally stood there when he allegedly wrote it. No one from the prosecution was present. If Roan was so convinced of Frank’s innocence, he had hundreds of opportunities to dismiss the case, to declare a mistrial, etc. But not only did he not do such things, he upheld the jury’s verdict (as a judge, he could have declared there was no valid case against Frank if he wanted to) AND he sentenced Frank TO DEATH, when he could just as well have sentenced him to life imprisonment.
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Tue, 23 May 2017 23:10:14 +0000https://theamericanmercury.org/?p=1492#comment-2363In a letter from the presiding judge to governor Slaton it appears he was convinced of Franks innocence. Did I miss this somewhere in the so called 100 reasons?
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